Manufacture of horse-collars



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HFB. MALDEIS.

MANUFAOT HORSE GOLL No. 393,166. Patents v. 20, 1888.

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ATTORNEY.

'NITED STATES HENRY B. MALDEIS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,166, dated November20, 1888.

Application filed August 18, 1888. Serial No.283,143. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY B. MALDEIs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in the Process of Making Horse-Oollars, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to an improved method of making horse-collars ofthe Kay style.

In the drawings herewith, Figure 1 is a crosssection of the collar onthe line 1 l of Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a view of part of a collar, showingsome details. Fig. 3 is a face view of the collar,being that side whichcomes in contact with the animal.

The letter A designates the body of the collar; B, the rim; 0, thefacing; and D,the stuffing, of felt orhair, which fills the creasebetween the body and rim. To make this style of collar so that thecrease-stuffing D will fill thecrease-cavity between the body A and rimB, and serve as a pad and impart softness to the facing, is thedesideratum, and I effect this object by first sewing up all the seamswhich unite the body and rim'parts, stuffing the rim cover, partlyfilling or stufling the body, laying the felt or hair in thecrease-cavity,stretching the loose facing over the crease-stuffing andsecuring it, and finally finish stuffing the partly-filled body. Thefacing c, face-lining c,and back d are first united by a seam,e. Thenthe rim-coverf, the said back d, face-lining c,and the housing g,interposed between the rimcover and back, are united by a seam, h. Thesetwo seams e h form and unite the body and rim parts ready forstuffing,but leaves one edge, 0 of the facing loose or unattached, andalso likewise leaves one edge, 9, of the housing loose. The rim-coverfis then stuffed or filled with material to form the rim B. The body A isthen partly formed by about half filling between the facclining c andback d with straw or other stufiing material. Hair or felt D,in suitablequantity to fill the crease in front of the seam h and act on the facinga, so as to form a pad, is then laid or placed in position. The loosefacing a is then drawn from the seam e over and covers thecrease-stuffing D and partly around the rim B, to which its edge 0 issecured by tacks z,- or stitches may be used instead. The loose edge ofthe housing covers the row of tacks, and is then laced to the facing bystitches j. Finally,the remainder of the stuffing is put in thepartly'filled body,and when full the effect will be to draw the facing atightly over the crease-stuffing. By this procedure the crease-cavitycan be well filled, and at the same time the said filling will serve asa pad and impart softness to the facing.

The method which includes, first, partly filling the body A, placing thestuffing along the crease, and afterward finish filling the body mayobviously be employed without reference to the housing 9. This lattermay therefore be used or'omitted.

Having described my invention, I claim- The method of makinghorse-collars,consisting of, first, sewing the seams which form andunite the body and rim parts,then stuffing the rim, partly filling orstuffing the body, placing stuffing materialD in position along thecrease between the rim and body,covering it with the facing c, andsecuring the edge of said facing to the rim by suitable fastenings, andfinally finish stufing the partly-filled body, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in

